Ohio · Nonprofit
LICKING LAND TRUST
LICKING LAND TRUST (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,138 to it, the largest being BFK FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $916k
What Licking Land Trust does
Mission
The mission of the Licking Land Trust is the preservation and permanent protection of central ohio green spaces, wetlands, woods, farmlands, riparian corridors, and scenic vistas, and education about the importance of green spaces and their conservation, all for the public good.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation Licking Land Trust acquires and stewards conservation easements and land in central ohio that are wetlands, woods, farmlands, riparian corridors, and scenic vistas. The organization completes annual inspections, monitors properties, and carries out stewardship activities such as combatting invasive plant species, removing diseased or dead trees, preparing and executing land management plans, and occasionally timbering forested property. Licking Land Trust currently holds easements on 1,461 acres and owns 125 acres. The organization achieved national accreditation in 2016 from the land trust alliance and was reaccredited in 2021.
$19,823 spent67% of program spendingEducation Licking Land Trust promotes educational outreach programs, including field trips, presentations about conservation and agricultural easements, and more general nature topics, leads nature walks and species inventory activities (bioblitzes) on our protected properties, and participates in public events related to nature, the environment, and conservation. The trust frequently hosts an annual summer internship for one or more college students. The trust maintains a website, creates and distributes newsletters featuring educational articles, participates in informative social media, and prepares/disseminates an annual report. The trust's annual meeting features an educational speaker, usually of national renown.
$7,736 spent26% of program spendingSupport Licking Land Trust provides support to the national land trust alliance, dawes arboretum, the statewide ohio coalition of land trusts (colt), licking county soil & water district, licking county farm bureau, licking park district, granville township board of trustees, denison university, and the granville area chamber of commerce through membership, donations, collaboration, and attendance at various meetings, conferences, activities, and events. The trust collaborates with other local organizations on various parts of its mission: for example, it stewards conservation easements on properties held by granville township.
$1,860 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,419.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $747k to $868k (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jim Bidigare
Chair and tr
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $7k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LICKING LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LICKING LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LICKING LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LICKING LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like LICKING LAND TRUST
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LICKING LAND TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LICKING LAND TRUST?
- LICKING LAND TRUST (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,138 to it, the largest being BFK FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LICKING LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $45,138 in grants to LICKING LAND TRUST, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LICKING LAND TRUST?
- BFK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LICKING LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing